@mikeash I don't need the history, I lived through that era. Did you even read the whole Wikipedia entry?
"The NeXT Computer was not a great commercial success" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer
"The NeXT Computer was not a great commercial success" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_Computer
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_Web_Server.jpg
Disclaimer: I am younger than any technology mentioned in this thread.